The Federal Customs Service building is allegedly on fire in Moscow

A fire has broken out in the building of the Federal Customs Service in Russia.

The Russian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and local Telegram channels report this. 

Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry reported that it had extinguished the 800-square-metre fire in the storehouses.

Eyewitnesses also reported explosions at the scene of the fire. Traffic was closed in the vicinity of the incident.

The cause of the fire is unknown.